Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 22:55:36 GMT -5
AOIFE CASSIDY RYLAND
FULL NAME: Aoife Cassidy Ryland.
NICKNAMES: Eef
AGE: twenty-three
SEXUALITY: straight.
STATUS: single.
GROUP: student.
GRADE: .
MAJOR: Dentistry.
JOB OCCUPATION: Hard Rock Supervisor.
HAIR: Naturally it’s a dark shade of brown, but Aoife has played with dyes over the years and still enjoys toying with them from time to time now. It’s slightly longer than medium length, but she doesn’t class it as long hair, citing the fact that she can’t tie it all back without the aid of bobby pins and clips. Usually she wears it down with loose curls in the bottom layers.
EYES: Brown.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: None that are of any importance, but when she’s been out in the sun the faint reminders of climbing trees as a child often show up pale on her knees
TATTOOS: She has “daggum” tattooed on the inside of her bottom lip to remind herself of her mom, who always used to say it whenever something went wrong. She jokes it keeps the profanity at bay…sometimes. She also has a small skeleton key behind her left ear. Skeleton keys can open all doors, so it’s a sign of her optimism and determinism.
PIERCINGS: Ears three times and a small stud in her nose
PLAY-BY: Mindy White!
LIKES: ]soft top cars, pole vault, watching athletics, heading home, statement jewellery, triple chocolate cookies, laundry days, key chains, gerbera daisies, cookie dough ice cream, winter nights, slipper booties, dental floss, little mints, apple flavoured water, I Dream of Jeannie, sitting by an open window, beach parties, boots, fishbowl cocktails.
DISLIKES: wind-chimes, pigeons, people pronouncing her name wrong after she’s told them it, hospital rooms, pop-up adverts, games of poker (because she’s terrible), itchy scarves, meat, barbecue sauce, the feeling sodas leaves on her teeth, storms while she’s on the road, falling asleep at her desk or in the library, blackcurrant squash, jasmine scent.
FEARS: pigeons, losing her dad, driving through a storm
SECRETS: She doesn’t tell people about her mom’s paranoid schizophrenia or about her residing in a psychiatric residence home. However, she does take the drive at least once every two weeks to go and visit her, regardless of how hectic her life in New York is.
PERSONALITY: Aoife is pretty laidback and fun-loving. She’s the kind of girl who will try anything at least once and has a daring streak in her personality. Often spontaneous, Aoife does still have a habit or two that she sees and keeps as part of her routine regardless of if people are aware of it or not. Playful, Aoife is amazingly good with kids, but has no immediate plans for any of her own. That doesn’t stop her fussing or fawning over others though. She’s usually always got a smile on her face, even if she’s just putting it on so people don’t ask her what’s wrong. Aoife likes to keep her personal life to herself, but isn’t what you would call guarded; she’ll share enough if it’s relevant or if she trusts someone enough. She’s a friendly kind of girl, but very down to earth. She doesn’t think that everyone will like her and she’s tough, usually letting insults and criticism go right over her head. Aoife knows when to back away from something, but commonly doesn’t listen to that bit of advice. She pushes people, especially if she feels like they’re running or avoiding something. She can be devious and often is the girl who plots behind other’s backs, but only with good intentions. She rarely sets out to deliberately hurt someone, but if they push her too far then she’s more than ready to retaliate in force and usually with some attitude and sly revenge. Cupid has knocked at her door once or twice before, but Aoife doesn’t commit easily. She’s flirty and plays cute, but her realistic ambitions for romance have yet to come to the top of her priorities. She likes to keep her dignity intact, but isn’t all that invincible to the charm of a charismatic man with the right words and a cheeky smile.
MOTHER: Kyle Nicholas Ryland, 48.
FATHER: Carmen Teresa Ryland, 46.
SIBLINGS: N/A.
OTHERS: N/A
PETS: Marley, Brown Tree Climber!
HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts
HISTORY: Carmen and Kyle were just two kids in love, quite literally. When Carmen was still mastering daisy-chains and Kyle was playing with toy trucks, she told him that she’d marry him one day. Being a little boy and still under the impression that all girls came with a side helping of cooties, he pushed her and the idea away. A few years later and he was innocently reaching for her hand in the schoolyard and giving her his favourite candy bar at lunchtime. It was a little ridiculous to the kids around them, adorable to the adults and eventually it became apparent that Carmen just might have gotten it right about the little boy down the street. They were a couple through the turbulent years of high school and even college didn’t tear them apart; in fact, the Christmas of Kyle’s junior year he put a diamond ring on her finger. Carmen struggled with college, eventually dropping out while Kyle went ahead and graduated with honours. She had a tough time focusing and other problems burdened her, but she just put it down to stress and ignored it as best as she could. She didn’t realise that she was actually quite sick.
Married and pregnant by twenty-three, Carmen’s health deteriorated after the birth of Aoife. At first it was put down to a case of post-partum depression, but it was her mother who requested a second opinion. She didn’t believe that the first diagnosis was correct and she had a good reason to be doubtful, as a second and third doctor diagnosed Carmen as a paranoid schizophrenic. She admitted to hiding some of her symptoms from Kyle and the rest of her family out of fear. Carmen was convinced that Kyle would leave her and take Aoife, too, but he loved her and stuck by her while treatment began.
Aoife remembers her childhood pretty fondly. She knew her mom was different in some ways to other moms, but Carmen tried her best with her daughter and there was always someone else popping in to make sure that everything was okay. Aoife was a happy little child, always wearing a smile and carrying a ragdoll wherever she went for the first few years of her life. At school things were pretty good. She liked her teachers and learning new things, usually keen to tell her family whenever she saw them. A few kids would make nasty comments about her mom, but teachers were quick to intervene and Aoife would later learn to take those comments and let them roll right off her with some dry response and quickly moving on with her day.
Life continued this way until Aoife was eleven. Kyle’s job took him away from Boston every once in a while, but with changes being made in the company it would increase the length of time he spent travelling the country. Really, including vacation days he would only be in Boston for around three months of the year. It wasn’t a good idea to up and move the whole family each time the company moved him to a new location to oversee the marketing branches. He looked at other jobs and better positions, but Carmen kept telling him that this was working towards the job that he had always dreamt of. This was the year that Carmen’s mom, Aoife’s granny, died from heart failure. Kyle took two of the location jobs, but upon his return to the home it became apparent that things were far from okay. In her grief over her mother’s death, Carmen had stopped paying strict attention to her medication and it was having a very noticeable effect on the poor woman. Her mom had always popped around for coffee and with Kyle gone it hadn’t been easy. He realised his mistake in leaving, heard Aoife whisper that she was scared of “mommy’s voices”. The complications were a little too much and with the help of her doctor, Carmen agreed to move into a psychiatric residence while she regained some control in her life and received the correct care to help her grieve and move on from the loss of her mother.
Kyle had made arrangements for Aoife to stay with a family friend, but the little girl had quite the grip and refused to let go of him and she threw a rather uncharacteristic tantrum each time he mentioned staying with the friends. He did consider staying off work for longer or quitting his job again, but Carmen’s bills were costly and she told him that if he gave it up for her that she would never forgive him. She might have been sick at the time, but Kyle knew his wife to be quite true to her words in the past. Reluctantly, he took Aoife with him to Arizona. It was the summer, so school wasn’t a problem, but he still didn’t like the idea of Aoife living out of his motel room and spending her days colouring at the reception desk with the slightly forgetful secretary who worked at that particular branch of the company.
He had hoped that things would be better when he returned to Boston two months later, but instead there were more shocks. Carmen, while still caring for her family, felt like she could cope better in the residential community. She wanted to stay there for longer and the doctors explained to Kyle and Aoife that with the symptoms and problems that Carmen exhibited even while consistently taking her medication she might not be able to support herself independently, let alone look after Aoife. Kyle, at his wit’s end, had no clue what to do, but it was Aoife who sat down and told him what she would like. She told him that she wasn’t much keen on his friends in Boston, that they would never be her mom or dad. She explained that seeing Arizona had been fun, even if she had spent a lot of time keeping out of the way. He didn’t want to drag her across the country with him and uproot her from school to school. He explained the consequences of it to Aoife, but she just shrugged it off. She didn’t really have too many friends to say goodbye to and none were really a best friend after one little girl had moved to Philadelphia after her parent’s divorce.
That was pretty much how Aoife began living out of hotels and motels with her dad, switching schools every four to six months. Sometimes she returned to schools she had once been a student at, but for the most part she was the new girl with the mysterious past and the habit of introducing herself with a brief statement of how she wouldn’t be there come the end of the year or the start of the next. She met friendly people, but even those she tried to keep in touch with moved on and oddly Aoife didn’t mind that. She got to see some of the great cities and places. They returned to Boston to visit Carmen as often as possible, even if it meant driving overnight on a Friday and then repeating the return trip on Sunday evening. Just because they didn’t have the conventional life it didn’t make them any less of a family, ever.
Aoife wasn’t blessed with naturally straight teeth. In fact, it was two years of braces and a retainer to follow after that for the young girl to earn herself a dazzling smile to be proud of. She didn’t dislike the trips to the dentist though. Aoife actually liked them! It was the curious questions throughout the appointments that had her contemplating a future giving other people nice teeth. She looked up the requirements, asked more questions and studied hard. Moving school to school, she had learnt to study a chapter ahead of most of her classes, just to be on the safe side, so she was pretty good when it came to grades which was a very good thing since the moving meant she didn’t have many other commitments to add into college applications, although she could still big up what little she did have from school athletics and one or two articles in school newspapers.
She had her big brown eyes set on New York. They offered a seven year combined degree program in dentistry. It would give her the necessary credits and classes in the first three years to see her through to the final four years in the college of dentistry. She had safety schools and other options, but Aoife was quietly pinning all of her hopes on New York and luckily, it paid off. She was accepted onto the course and with Kyle finding her a small apartment within walking distance of the college, Aoife was set. She was a few short hours from her mom should she decide she needed a visit or if Carmen needed anything and New York was the one city that they had temporarily called home that had always been calling back to Aoife.
The course she was on was demanding, horrifically so and there were a few sleepless nights when Aoife wondered if she had made a mistake or if she could even make it through the next exam. The parties were often sacrificed and nights in the library were not uncommon. She even took to carrying an overnight bag as part of her usual college bag, just in case! There were exams, admissions papers and even more work outside of the classroom, but Aoife’s dream still held strong even when the rest of her wanted to curl into a ball and forget it all existed. The day she received the formal letter of acceptance to continue the final four years at the school of dentistry, Aoife had it framed and hung on her wall as proof to herself that the hard work, sleepless nights and social sacrifices had been worth it. During all of this, she worked shifts at the Hard Rock Café to make the rent and put gas in her car to save her dad from bailing her out with monthly hand-outs.
Now, she has two final years left at the college of dentistry and then she’ll be ready to face “the real world”. It’s still tough and demanding, but she’s not long earned herself a promotion at work which means the money is a little better and she can afford to at least treat herself from time to time. It’s a way off until she’s living the life she wants, but she’s starting to close in on it and that’s exactly the motivation she needs to power through those tougher days!
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
